Sunil Gavaskar wants Prasidh Krishna in Tests too for India
Prasidh Krishna
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Young India pace bowler Prasidh Krishna has managed to impress everyone with his debut in the first ODI against England in Pune. He has taken wickets in both games and former India opener Sunil Gavaskar feels that he should be in the Test team as well.
"With those seam-up deliveries, he is someone the Indian selection committee must consider seriously for red-ball cricket (Tests) as well. Just like Jasprit Bumrah, from T20s and ODIs, has now become India’s premium bowler in the Test format, Prasidh Krishna, with his pace and the seam-up position could be a very, very good red-ball bowler as well," said Gavaskar.
On the other hand, Prasidh Krishna has said that he needs to improve while bowling with the new ball. He picked up four wickets for 54 runs in the first ODI and two for 58 in the second game that India lost as well. Surprisingly, he picked up wickets in his later spells, whereas his initial spells in both the matches proved quite expensive as well as wicketless.
"Personally I would like to start better. I would like to improve on how I have been starting, bowling with the new ball. All the runs that I gave away today were bad balls bowled by myself. So I would go back and work on it," said Prasidh when asked to assess his bowling.
"We did have a plan and discussed how they were going but we tried our best when we bowled. There were couple of chances that could have gone our way. We must give credit to them, the way they went after our bowling but yeah, there is room for improvement for our bowlers as well," he said while talking to media in a virtual interaction after the game.
"We could have bowled better, not denying the fact. But we need to give credit to them for the way they played. Yeah it was an onslaught. We got hit. In white ball cricket, with four outside the circle, between 11-40 overs, this is bound to happen. I know we are going to bounce back stronger. Same situation last game, we did come back and had a great result. Our execution could have been better. I am talking about myself alone. We did make mistakes," he concluded.
